Shyamal Mitra (14 January 1929 – 15 November 1987) was an Indian versatile playback singer along with Hemanta Mukherjee and Manna Dey.
Mitra also had worked in many Hindi and Bengali films as music director and film producer.
He was the most notable musician of the golden era of Bengali music industry.
His baritone voice reflected a range of emotions.
Beside recording a huge number of popular Bengali basic songs, he also worked as a playback singer in more than a hundred Bengali movies and directed music in more than fifty Bengali films.
He also sang in various other Indian languages, like Hindi, Assamese and Oriya.